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28 of 29 customers found the following review helpful:
 about iWeb only, for now, 2006-08-01
I'm starting up a business and it was my intent to learn Frontpage and build a site which I would have up in the Spring. The problem is that I knew exactly what I wanted the page to look like and operate. I had tinkered around with Frontpage a year ago just because I was curious how a web site was put together, and so I figured it would take several months to get what I wanted.
Since that time I bought a Mac and wondered about the wisdom of using Frontpage because it would mean that I would have to have a PC around to update and change the web site. But I liked the flexibility that Frontpage offered, and was willing to work at it until I could take advantage of that. Or wait until MS comes out with their updated version with Vista and see what that is like.
I emailed a friend who does web site work and asked what I should use if I was going to be using our Macs for this. He said iWeb, which made me pause because I was trying to create a business web site, not a blog or site of my pictures of my last vacation. But I like him, he's incredibly smart and all that stuff, and so I thought I'd buy it and see if it would work. If not I'd just buy another Mac friendly program like Rapid Weaver.
At first I was put off by the number of templates, which I thought was way too few. But I would say that the hardest part of the process was accepting that my site was not going to be exactly what I had envisioned in my head. While I was getting over that I just started goofing around to see what it could do.
I was literally stunned at the ease of use. I found that if I started with blank pages I could make it do what I wanted, and how I wanted it to look. The only lack of flexibility is that the buttons to bounce between pages is always at the top. That's not a problem for me, however.
I have never used a program which was so completely intuitive. I never had a roadblock, and the only help I needed was found in the book "The Macintosh iLife '06" by Jim Heid. He gives less than 20 pages to iWeb, but it's more than enough. It was actually so enjoyable to work on my site that I ended up working on it one night until 4 in the morning -- and I was in college during the Carter administration, so I'm normally hitting the sack at 10 like the boring person I am!
I had planned on having my site done by the end of the year, using Frontpage, but it's virtually done now after 10 days of working here and there on it. (What's left to do is to take a few more pictures and edit the text again.) My plan was also to take a month or two and learn how to load it to a site and make changes as needed, etc. That took an hour to figure out (using Transmit ftp program, and hosting at Mecca Hosting -- I also have great things to say about that program and hosting site as well).
So, after about two weeks my site is up temporarily at .Mac (because I could password protect it and just have a few friends look at it and make comments), and I created a temporary site at Mecca. As an aside I didn't want to use .Mac for my host because I needed my business name in my URL, but I'll use their site for the sixty days and then decide. Maybe i do a personal web site at .Mac just for fun.
But know that it was very, very easy to download my site to Mecca and I started out never having done an ftp transfer. It did take about an hour figuing out Transmit, but even that was fun rather than frustrating.
As for the site, no one has any idea I created it on iWeb, meaning that it doens't look amateurish. In fact I think it looks better than many of the sites friends in my line of work have had professionally done. Perhaps that's because it's more to my taste, but my point is that it was easy to make what I wanted and have it come out looking great.
My only complaints are the lack of templates, which I was able to get around by starting with blank pages. So that's no complaint at all.
My second complaint is that this was supposed to take a few months of my time (working at it when I found the time and was willing to work through frustrations - which never materialized). Now's it's done and I can't put it on the web until the Spring. That's my real complaint.
This is without a doubt the best program I have ever used.
4 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
great program, 2006-08-01
I used it to make my son's 1st Birth day party picture slide show, everybody loved it... great program
Apple iLife '06, 2006-07-05
This book is necessary for anyone who is using this suite of applications for the first time. I would suggest that the reader use this book as a reference. If you are confused about any special task, this should book will provide you with the help you need.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Mac iLife '06, 2006-06-25
I bought iLife '06 specifically for the iPhoto program. The program did as advertised, handling RAW format photos just fine. It even updated "pixilated" RAW photos that I had saved in an earlier version of iPhoto - an excellent package of great programs at a reasonable price.
3 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not worth it if you do not have a .MAC account , 2006-06-25
I do not have a .mac account because I have my own domain. And all the feature in this DVD is something you can use with a .Mac account. iPhoto is fine OK update.
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